Ar. David Yek Tak Wai
​B.Sc.HBP(Hons), B.Arch.(USM), P.Arch. APAM, AIPDM, ALAM, RIBA, MHKICAdj. MMIArb.

Ar. David’s secondary area of practice besides architecture and interior design is alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in construction law and payment in construction related matters. He sets up DYA+C to undertake drafting of the various building and engineering claims, advises on disputes arising from such contracts and potentially appear as arbitrator and adjudicator to resolve these disputes. Prior to his venturing into the area of ADR in the construction law and payment disputes in construction related matters, he had been actively practicing as a Professional Architect, registered with the Board of Architect Malaysia (LAM), in his own architectural practice, David Yek Architect (DYA) for more than 10 years. His portfolio includes private residential, high-end mass residential high-rises, international schools, mixed development commercial and various industrialized data centers and factories. He occasionally sits in the ADR committee for the Malaysia Institute of Architect (PAM) and was also elected as a member of the Institute of Interior Design Malaysia (IPDM). Ar. David has completed the Malaysian Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 (CIPAA) adjudicator with the Asia International Arbitration Centre (AIAC). Besides that he has since, sat for the PAM-CIArb Arbitration examination, organised by the PAM ADR committee that is a domestic arbitration regime governed by the PAM and the Malaysian Arbitration Act Amended 2018 that is modelled under the UNCITRAL rules. Ar. David, in his capacity as an architect has also acted as expert witness, consultant and party representative in domestic arbitration and in the courts of law. While discharging his architectural role, he was accredited with the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore as a CONQUAS 21 assessor, where our domestic CIDB modelled it as their QLASSIC standards for construction. To add on to his resume as an Expert, he has qualified and admitted as a Fire Engineer of the Institution of Fire Engineers UK (MIFireE).